the discipline of bowing down

i like to pray with a coffee cup in my hand, or while walking or running, but I have found that it often helps to bow down to the Lord and pray to Him.  I tell my dogs to sit, and they know I am the master because they obey me.  Sometimes I imagine God telling me to sit and obeying him like I would have my dogs obey me.  I feel I am a loving master to my dogs.  Jesus Christ is an even more loving master, for we come and kneel and bow and put our face at the feet of one whose feet were bowed down for us, for one who was treated worse than a dog for us, for he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that brought us peace was upon him.